Spring and Autumn I Am King

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"Crack crackle crackle", the tortoise shell made a slight cracking sound when the fire burned, and the disheveled Zhu Yun closed his eyes and listened to the voice of the ghost whispering in his ear.

As the saying goes, the three kings are different tortoises, and the four barbarians are different from each other, but each of them decides good and bad. Zhu Yun is the Taizhu of the State of Wei. He is in charge of the speeches. When there is a big change, he prays for the blessing of ghosts and gods. Because he is good at divination, he occasionally replaces the post of Taizhu and acts as a turtle for the monarch.

The Wei people inherited a lot of Yin and Shang culture and attached great importance to tortoises.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lin, Feng, Turtle, and Dragon are called the Four Spirits. Zi Lu once asked Confucius why tortoise shells are the best for divination. Confucius replied: Divination is like a childish child who wants to ask why , maybe he will first go to a white-bearded grandpa, who must be an experienced person in the eyes of the child. People prefer tortoise shells for divination because tortoises have the longest lifespan. They know everything from ancient to modern, so who can you ask if you don’t ask tortoises when you have questions?

Therefore, the tortoise shells in the treasury of Weiguo are all large tortoises in Pushui. The burnt shells are dotted with scalded small holes, and there are fine cracks caused by high temperature around the small holes. These textures are also heard by the gods and gods. The mysterious symbols left after praying are closely related to the fate of the country. Maybe it will decide the direction of Wei, they may decide the war, or decide to make peace, or decide to move the capital, or decide whether the harvest is good or not.

At this time, after Huo Liao was removed, Zhu Yun ignored the scorching heat remaining on the tortoise shell and gently stroked it with his fingertips.

"The tortoise shell is scorched, and if the minister Bu De rushes forward on this trip, it's bad luck!" After a while, Zhu Yun lowered his eyes and reported the results of the divination to Wei Hou Yuan, who was waiting anxiously beside him.

"Unfortunate? You say that the widow's army will pass through Zhongmu and attack the territory of the Handan clan."

As he got older, Weihou became more and more irritable, and he hated those who disobeyed him.

It is now mid-October, and it has been a month and a half since the Qi people launched the Battle of Yiyi. It is said that now after the two sides paid thousands of casualties. The outer guo has been breached, and only the inner city remains stubbornly resisting.

As long as the siege continued for a period of time, the Qi people would be victorious and remove Yiyi. The Jin people will no longer have a stronghold east of the Dahe River, and the northern border of the Wei Kingdom will also be free from their threat.

But Jin is an old-fashioned overlord after all. Although the six ministers are in their own hands, even if only two or three ministers work together, they are enough to fight against Qi! Small states like Wei Guo. It would be nice to be able to stand up to any other minister in court.

After the reform of Muzi of the Bank of China, the Bank of China's chariots and soldiers were few and many soldiers. The Bank of China assembled 300 chariots in the land of Dongyang, and more than 10,000 people were on the west bank of the big river, but on the other side were more than 10,000 people of the Chen family of Qi State. The clan soldiers were guarding, so they could not cross the river to help.

Bank of China Yin appealed to the country for support, and the Handan clan, the in-law of Bank of China, could not ignore it. Their three hundred chariots and nine thousand disciples were also leaving Handan and heading for that area.

as an ally of the Bank of China. The Fan family had many chariots and few soldiers. They also assembled 600 chariots in Chaoge. A total of more than 10,000 people were about to go north, but they were disrupted by the sudden rebellion of Jin ten days ago. Now they have to stay in Zhongmu and face off against Wei Guo's left and right armies. Although Wei Guo's chariots are few, only 500 chariots, but the troops of the soldiers are as many as 20,000.

Although the chief minister of Zhongmu, Foshan, was a minister of the Zhao clan, he had already taken refuge with the Handan clan and shared weal and woe. Therefore, he was able to join forces with Zhao's enemy, Fan, to protect himself.

After helping the Qi people to hold off the Fan family, Weihou You was not satisfied, and he planned to go north to Handan. This is a risky military operation, but it coincides with the principle of "attacking the enemy will save you" in the art of war. By the time. Maybe it can force the Handan clan to return to the division, and that way, the pressure of Qi State on Yiyi will be instantly reduced by half.

But just when the guards fortune-telling passed through Zhongmu, the tortoise shell was burnt, which was a bad omen.

The ministers all persuaded Weihou that it is better to stay here. Don't stay too far from the Wei Kingdom. Now, for the Qi people, one-third of the troops east of Taihang in the Jin Kingdom have been held back, and they have done their best.

"enough!"

Wei Hou Yuan, however, said decisively with a sullen face: "Fan's and Zhongmu's combined troops are six hundred, and Wei's chariots are only five hundred, but with a few people, it is equivalent to one hundred, which is equal, why? There is fear! If you want to achieve great things, how can you not take some risks?"

So the left and right armies of Wei State passed through Zhongmou, while Fan's troops set up outside the city, wanting to attack Weiren.

But Chu Shipu, a guard man who fled to Zhongmu to seek asylum many years ago because of his bad relationship with Weihou, advised Fan Jishe: "Although Wei is small, they have a monarch in the army, and their morale is bound to be high. Sufficient, the people of the country all have the intention of humiliating their subjects to death, and I am afraid they will not be able to defeat them."

"If the guards go north, sandwiched between Zhongmu and Handan, not only will we not be able to go north smoothly, but the Handan clan may also be held back. By then, the general will be alone and Yiyi will be in danger..." Fan Ji She black-faced to analyze the situation, this is not what he wanted to see in the battle.

However, since he has the intention of preservation, Fan Jishe will not do his best to fight the Weiren to the death, so he can only let the Weiren be in between Huanshui and Qishui, cut off his own way, and can't get around. , and do not want to fight.

Regarding Wei Guo, although Wei Hou played an adventure like a chicken blood, although he was willing to take chestnuts for the Qi people, he was not willing to consume himself too much.

So the guards and the Fan and Zhongmou troops faced off in this area for several days.

Most of the wars in the Spring and Autumn Period were like this. Jin and Chu were fighting for hegemony. The main forces of the two countries met countless times, but the war was only fought three times in Chengpu, Qi and Yanling, and there were only a few small battles.

For example, in the past, when the father of Jin Guoyang attacked Chu, and the door was in Fangcheng, he met the master of Chu led by the son of the son Zhu, and he withdrew it. In the next few years, Yang Chufu invaded Cai again, Chu State Sima Zi came to rescue Cai, Jin and Chu joined the army, Yang Chufu deceived the Chu army, and the Jin army returned. The following battles around the corners, the valley of the corners, and the Rushui encounter were all like this. Several times, they were confronted by rivers or cities. I would rather you advance and I retreat, and you retreat and I advance, rather than a desperate battle.

This was an excellent strategic containment. Under the plan of Wang Sunjia, the guards waited calmly for more than a month, but if they didn't move, they stabbed the vital point of Jin's reinforcements. Now, not only are the Fan clan's troops unable to move, but even the Handan clan has doubts, and split half of the troops back to defend.

However, when the news of the fire in the backyard of Wei Guo came, the position of the Wei army instantly became extremely embarrassing...

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"Ziliang Sima set off from Zhouyi, crossed the sacrifice ground, and then entered the territory of Zheng State as if it were no one, then crossed Song State, took the road of Cao State, and circled in an arc. , to achieve unparalleled achievements, it can be said that it is a feat that has never been seen before..."

Outside Shengdou Township, the two armies meeting were holding the Zhao family's Xuanbird flag and fluttering in the wind. Zhao Wuxi lifted up the person who was bowing down and looked at him and his subordinates, although they were tired, but still full of energy, he couldn't help but praise.

No one could have imagined that this was the forward that Zhao Yang had previously appointed to advance eastward. Zhao's family, Sima You, is the elite of that division.

After the ambush in the west of Juye Township ended, Zhao Wuxi immediately sent troops to Punan in the name of arresting robbers and punishing guards for treason against Jin.

He first let Ran Qiu take Juye Town, which had been consumed into hollow bamboo, and then let Gongsun Qu be held hostage, and he pretended to be a defeated guard and knocked on the door. The same is true of the Lishan camp where Master Wei was previously stationed. After occupying this commanding height, the southern part of the Wei Kingdom has already fallen into Zhao Wuxi's hands, leaving only Chengpu and Shengdou.

However, Shengdou Yi, where Sima Shiman, who was killed in battle, was in the previous place was extremely well-prepared. He actually saw through the fact that the person who returned from the defeat was pretending, and refused to open the door. However, they only focused on guarding against the enemy in front of them, but were caught off guard by the troops from the rear, and the city fell.

It turned out that as early as a month ago, after receiving the letter from Zhao Wuxi and the "serial plan" described, Zhao Yang dispatched a forward of the first division of You Wuzheng to arrive in Wendi. After learning that the Wei Kingdom was at war with the Jin Kingdom, he immediately crossed the river and arrived at Jiyi, the stronghold of the Jin Kingdom south of the Dahe River.

Jiyi was originally the ancient country of sacrifice, but after King Ping moved eastward, it became the territory of Zheng Kingdom. It is adjacent to Mangshan Mountain in the south and the river in the north. In the 20th year of King Ding of Zhou (587 BC), the State of Zheng attacked the State of Xu, and the State of Xu asked for help from the State of Jin. The Jin State dispatched troops to occupy Zhengzhi's sacrificial town and gave it to the Zhi clan as the leading town. Although Zhi and Zhao Erqing were not very dealing with it, the Zhao family was willing to go east and send troops, and the ruling Zhibo couldn't find a reason to stop him, so he could only turn a blind eye and let You Wuzheng cross the river.

After crossing the river. As an ally of the Qi people, the people of Zheng Guo immediately surrounded him, trying to contain the Jin people's partial division.

The whole division of You Wuzheng actually left behind the baggage and traveled through the night with only several days' rations, boldly crossing the northern border of Zheng State. The reason why he dared to do this was because most of his team were chariot soldiers, and there were also cavalry soldiers who had learned from Zhao Wuxi. Even if the Chinese wanted to volley, how could they catch up?

After Zheng State, it is Song State. Although Song State broke away from the allied relationship with Jin State, it did not join Qi State. The Zhao family supported the Le family back then, and Zhao Wuxi also won Song Gong's favor in Songcheng's long-sleeved dance. In addition, the Sicheng Le family and Nanzi talked about it, and the borrowing thing went smoothly.

But it was stopped by the ruling Le Daxin.

"The Jin people's trip must be to seek the marriage of the Song state to defend the state, not to go to the west of the Lu state as Zhao Qing and Zhao Wuxi said in the letter, and then go north to Yiyi, your lord must not agree!"

The fifth son of Song Guo also agreed, and Xiang Shi followed up and quarreled with him. This borrowing way once again became a question of whether to vote for Jin or Qi.

Military situation and fighter planes are fleeting~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How can you wait for the Song people to argue? He was bold and careful, and actually led his troops all the way eastward from the gap on the border of Song Wei. In this way, even if the old-fashioned Song people came to ask the guilt, they could avoid the blame by saying that the gap was not from the Song Dynasty.

Needless to say, the next Cao Guo, the relationship between Cao Bo and Zhao Wuxi was in the honeymoon period. With a stroke of a pen, he agreed to You Wuzheng's request, while Zigong brought supplies and a lot of recruited labor and even It was the horses waiting on the border of Song and Cao to replenish the Zhao soldiers with provisions.

"I hope that Sima will join the guard and kill less." As a guard, he couldn't bear Zhao Wuxi's plot to defend the country, but as a Wuxi retainer, he could only let it go, and even had to help.

Food for the ruler and loyalty to the ruler are the same in the Spring and Autumn Period.

So in less than ten days, You Wuzheng completed a rare feat in this era, a big detour to Punan of the Wei State, gave Sheng Douyi a fatal blow, and successfully joined Zhao Wuxi here. (To be continued.)

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